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WHY JOHNNY CAN'T WRITE
HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH TEXTBOOKS: A CRITICAL EXAMINATION.
By Jemes J. Lynch end Bertrend Evens. Atlentic-Little Brown. $4.95.
The Council for Basic Education, which is the sponsor of
this volume, is well known for its efforts to point out the weaknesses
in the American school system. In this work its authors turn their at–
tention to the two types of textbooks, the anthologies, and grammar
and composition series, which are widely used in secondary school
English courses.
If
the teaching of English in .our schools
is
as weak as the authors
seem to believe, then they have pointed out on page xiv one of the
obvious reasons for this: "the textbook is literally the course." I have
no way of questioning the truth of
this
finding, but it is at least note–
worthy that the authors, having pointed this out, never refer to it
SDAKESPEARlr's POEMS
A Facsimile of the Earliest Editions
with a Preface by James M. Osborn,
Louis
L.
Martz, and
Eugene
M. Waith
The 155 plates are exact facsimiles of the exceedingly rare
originals: "Venus and Adonis," "Lucrece," "The Passionate
Pilgrim," "The Phoenix and the Turtle," "A Lover's Com–
plaint," and the Sonnets.
$10.00
WORDSWORTD!!S POETRY!! 1787.1814
by Geoffrey H. Hartman
"A most distinguished book, subtle, penetrating, profound. It
has advanced an understanding of Wordsworth beyond the
excellent work of recent years."-Rene Wellek.
$8.50
ANOUILD:
A Study in Theatrics
by John Harvey
"A real contribution to our understanding of the French
playwright . . . Mr. Harvey's is the first book-length study
which carefully and systematically investigates the various
aspects and effects of Anouilh's
theatricality
as they concern,
and reveal themselves in, the playwright's work."-Edith Kern.
$6.00
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Yale University Press, New Haven
and
London
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